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fangman said.. >> I don't agree that Pete should be excused for being unintentionally nasty. Just because he didn't apply enough thought to how his words and bigoted ideas could affect others does not make his statements benign. Case in point, he got banned for posting Nazi imagery.

We all need to be responsible for our actions, intended or otherwise.
Unintended bad actions need to be rectified.
Intended bad actions need to be punished.
In a fuzzy kind of way.

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myscreenname said..
I'd put a fiver on peacenlove being an architect, living on the Sth Coast of NSW.

Mr Milk would know.

Does he drive a Skoda?

Go brother John:

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peacenlove said.

also, placing the prefix 'ab' before 'original' makes it the opposite.....

Yet again, Utter bollocks.
FWIW the word "aboriginal" originates from the Latin term "aborigines", which was used to describe the original inhabitants of a place.
Its etymology:
Latin Roots:"Ab": A Latin preposition meaning "from" or "away."
"Origine": Derived from "origo", meaning "origin" or "beginning."
Together, "aborigines" literally means "from the beginning" or "original inhabitants."

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peacenlove said.

also, placing the prefix 'ab' before 'original' makes it the opposite.....

"Ablate" obviously means "early" right?

hey, hey I got one;

Abalone means together ?


Disclaimer :
I have no idea what this argument is about, nor can I see the original quoted post anywhere in the recent past

Absolve = Fail.

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Carantoc said..
hey, hey I got one;

Abalone means together ?


Disclaimer :
I have no idea what this argument is about, nor can I see the original quoted post anywhere in the recent past

Brother, for a few days I was thinking seabreeze was dead and then, DANG.

Our newest long lost brother 'peacenlove' re-joined the network and I'm all fired up.

With the Abalone = Together: IDK for sure, but maybe you have been drinking too much of that contaminated water.

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myscreenname said..
With the Abalone = Together: IDK for sure, but maybe you have been drinking too much of that contaminated water.

Yeah, fair enough, poor example, sorry.

Especially when there are so many obviously better ones. Hey, here's one I just thought of :

abracadabra - means the opposite of racadabra right ? ****, no that's another poor one.... how about....

abominator - means it the opposite of ominator ?

I came across what appears to be the original source of left and right with regards to contemporary politics.

Just before the French revolution, the assembly divided based on their political stances.Those that supported the monarchy sat to the right of the chair, and those that supported power in the hands of the people sat to the left of the chair.

Right = Authoritarianism
Left = Egalitarianism

The divide today isn't as clear as this footnote of the French revolution but an interesting consideration none the less.

Did you read/hear that on Bill Bryson's "Made in America"? I heard the same story just yesterday. Clearly us leftard sheeple are colluding.

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remery said..
Did you read/hear that on Bill Bryson's "Made in America"? I heard the same story just yesterday. Clearly us leftard sheeple are colluding.

Been looking into the timeline+conditions that led to the various uprisings, revolutions, etc.. throughout Europe as the enlightenment took hold. Stumbled across the left/right in France's technically No.1 of 3 revolutions.

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Brent in Qld said..
I came across what appears to be the original source of left and right with regards to contemporary politics.

Just before the French revolution, the assembly divided based on their political stances.Those that supported the monarchy sat to the right of the chair, and those that supported power in the hands of the people sat to the left of the chair.

Right = Authoritarianism
Left = Egalitarianism

The divide today isn't as clear as this footnote of the French revolution but an interesting consideration none the less.

Just saw a mangled Zen saying, "The left wing and right wing belong to the same bird". Too tired to figure out whether it's deep or just stupid...

I think if we want the bird to fly in a straight line, they have to pull together.

Remember the good ol' days when you were ridiculed and labelled a CT anti-vax nutter for mentioning a Lab Leak.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-26/cia-says-covid-more-likey-to-have-emerged-from-a-lab-than-nature/104860672

"The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a "research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely" and notes in its statement that both scenarios - lab origin and natural origin - remain plausible."

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remery said..
"The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a "research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely" and notes in its statement that both scenarios - lab origin and natural origin - remain plausible."

It has even lower confidence it came from a market.

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Flying Dutchman said..
Remember the good ol' days when you were ridiculed and labelled a CT anti-vax nutter for mentioning a Lab Leak.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-26/cia-says-covid-more-likey-to-have-emerged-from-a-lab-than-nature/104860672

Nah, I think you are making up the past. I saw an article early on where the US (probably the CIA) made a comment that their monitoring of the Wuhan facility saw that there were much less cars parked there and none or little mobile phone activity there. It's sobering when they can comment on mobile phone activity around an area in a different country, but I guess that's what these agencies do.

But I believed it to be plausible early on and I would never call myself a CT-nutter. You maybe, but not me and if we were to agree on something I would have to default to us both being not nutters. Against my better judgement

Where does the "anti-vax" of being a nutter come into believing it could have been an accidentaly release from a lab? A lab leak does not involve vaccines.

But, CT-nutters never seem to narrow down to one or few ideas. They seem to sprout all of them and are never pinned down on any. Which is where they get the 'nutter' tag from. I mean, I could claim pretty much anything and if I had no need to provide any logic to support it, well I would be "correct" on just about anything wouldn't I? If you suggest heaps of wild ideas then the chances of one being true becomes higher and higher. The only thing a CT-nutter would never suggest is the official story and they only don't mention those because who can be special if the mainstream media advertises it?

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FormulaNova said..
....But I believed it to be plausible early on and I would never call myself a CT-nutter.

Sometimes one needs to look a little deeper in the mirror FN. It seems you have conspiratorial thinking. Some would have you sent to re-eduction camp for that.

Although the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is not definitively known, arguments used in support of a laboratory leak are characteristic of conspiratorial thinking
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory

So just to keep score for myscreenname's benefit: its the US Dept. Of Energy, the CIA, the FBI, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, several members of the offical WHO Covid research teams and Formula Nova all for the lab-leak, remery and china against.

Lab Leak - 6
Not Lab Leak - 2

Almost a "concensus"

"Four IC elements and the National Intelligence Council assess with low confidence that the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection was most likely caused by natural exposure to an animal infected with it or a close progenitor virus-a virus that probably would be more than 99 percent similar to SARS-CoV-2. These analysts give weight to China's officials' lack of foreknowledge, the numerous vectors for natural exposure, and other factors."

www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Unclassified-Summary-of-Assessment-on-COVID-19-Origins.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjn_saPyJOLAxXwoK8BHQfLNIIQFnoECBIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0h8PxRimgE-CBogJsS43me